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Remember those defined-benefit programs through which companies promised a certain amount every month to retirees? The market crash may be dealing that already waning concept a final, fatal blow. A new report from Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Institute illustrates that massive equity losses have resulted in S&P 500 companies' pension funds, which had been overfunded at the start of the year, fading so fast that they are now underfunded as a group. Instead of holding 108% of the assets they were promising to provide to retirees, they now hold just 91% (and falling...
...beyond the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, which includes industries like retailing and travel, into other sectors like energy and industrials," says John Butters, director of U.S. earnings research for Thomson Reuters. Among the few companies that may buck the negative trend in analyst expectations are airlines, which may benefit from falling fuel costs...
...risky business of hiring stars,” Groysberg said. “Part of your performance is driven by the system that you are in.” He suggested that an efficient hiring structure can make a significant difference in firm performance. He hoped that firms can benefit from these results by realizing that hiring star workers will not guarantee that the worker will succeed in the new environment. The authors also had advice on an individual level. Abraham said that individuals should make prudent career decisions, and when transferring to a different job, the individual should consider...
...other hand, reflects a very different approach to the health care crisis. His plan for a $5,000 health care tax credit for every American seems attractive at first glance; unfortunately, he plans to recoup the extraordinary costs associated with this credit by taxing employers on health benefits. As such, instead of expanding coverage, the McCain program is likely to discourage employers—currently the largest providers of health insurance in the United States—from offering health insurance as a benefit. This would be catastrophic to the public health of the United States, and would leave more...
...Peck is co-chairing a benefit party for all City-Step alumni in New York this February in hopes of bringing together former CitySteppers from both Harvard and Penn, where the program’s community efforts were expanded in 2004. Though many alumni have lost touch with the organization, Peck hopes that both the event and the program’s new status will help boost the endowment figures...